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Comedian Kim Wayans takes on a different kind of role in the film Pariah, where she plays a conservative mother in Brooklyn whose daughter is living a secret lesbian life. She dropped by during the Toronto International Film Festival to talk with Bonnie Laufer about what she thought of her “complex” character, being taken seriously […]
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What drew Adepero Oduye to accept the role in Dee Rees’s Pariah? Instant attraction. She understood the material of the script and could relate to the feeling of not belonging, of not feeling free. Pariah is the story of a 17-year-old Brooklyn girl who juggles her conservative family life with her secret lesbian identity. Oduye […]
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The short of Dee Rees’s film Pariah was featured in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and the full-length feature was premiered on Day 5 of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, a “fairytale” for Rees. In an interview with Bonnie Laufer of Tribute, Rees explains how the film was envisioned as a feature, shot as […]
